{"id":10586,"date":"2018-08-07T01:00:21","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T23:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/?p=10586"},"modified":"2018-08-09T13:39:19","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T11:39:19","slug":"impossible-burger-passes-fda-approval-for-human-consumption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/food-and-beverage\/impossible-burger-passes-fda-approval-for-human-consumption\/","title":{"rendered":"Impossible Burger Passes FDA Approval for Human Consumption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The main ingredient contained in the <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/companies-and-portraits\/impossible-foods-convertible-note\/\">Impossible Burger<\/a>, a clean meat product created by Impossible Foods, has finally been officially approved by the Food and Drugs Association of the US.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The clean meat burger which <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/market-and-trends\/new-report-describes-market-for-bleeding-burgers\/\">&#8220;bleeds&#8221;<\/a> and is designed to sizzle, smell and taste like beef, is comprised of an ingredient known as \u201cheme\u201d which is a cell found inside a plant and inside the muscle tissue of an animal. This key ingredient is otherwise known as soy leghemoglobin, and had been previously under review as a potential allergen.<\/p>\n<p>The FDA said in a statement that it &#8220;does not have any questions at this time about the company&#8217;s conclusion that soy leghemoglobin is GRAS under the intended conditions of use (in the company&#8217;s cooked ready-to-eat vegetarian products emulating ground beef, such as its plant-based Impossible Burger) and therefore does not require premarket review as a food additive. It is important to note that the safety standard for food additives and GRAS substances is the same &#8212; reasonable certainty of no harm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Impossible Burger has seen huge success with both herbivores and omnivores and is widely available across the US. <a href=\"https:\/\/impossiblefoods.com\/\">Impossible Foods<\/a> recently forged a partnership deal with the White Castle burger chain and is also available at Umami burger restaurants. It was first made available in upscale restaurant Momofuku Nishi which sells $39 steak and $62 lobster dishes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The main ingredient contained in the Impossible Burger, a clean meat product created by Impossible Foods, has finally been officially approved by the Food and Drugs Association of the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":10587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[451],"class_list":["post-10586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-and-beverage","tag-impossible-burger","infinite-scroll-item","resize-featured-image"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/index-1.jpg",370,136,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/index-1-150x55.jpg",150,55,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/index-1-300x110.jpg",300,110,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/index-1.jpg",370,136,false],"large":["https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/index-1.jpg",370,136,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/index-1.jpg",370,136,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/index-1.jpg",370,136,false],"mailpoet_newsletter_max":["https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/index-1.jpg",370,136,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Emma Clarkson","author_link":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/author\/emma\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The main ingredient contained in the Impossible Burger, a clean meat product created by Impossible Foods, has finally been officially approved by the Food and Drugs Association of the US.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}